"Vito Corleone Vito Andolini Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzo's novel ""The Godfather"" and in the first two of Francis Ford Coppola's three Godfather films, in which, in later life, he is portrayed by Marlon Brando in ""The Godfather"" and then, as a young man, by Robert De Niro in ""The Godfather Part II"". He is an orphaned Italian (Sicilian) immigrant who builds an American Mafia empire. Upon his death, Michael, his youngest son, succeeds him as the don of the Corleone crime family. He has two other sons, Santino (""Sonny"") and Frederico (""Fredo""), and one daughter Constanzia"
"Academy Award nomination for reprising the role of Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", a role that he originated successfully on Broadway. He received further praise for his performance as Terry Malloy in ""On the Waterfront"", and his portrayal of the rebellious motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in ""The Wild One"" proved to be a lasting image in popular culture. Brando received Academy Award nominations for playing Emiliano Zapata in ""Viva Zapata!""; Mark Antony in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1953 film adaptation of Shakespeare's ""Julius Caesar""; and Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver"
"Sylvester Stallone Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (; born July 6, 1946) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He is well known for his Hollywood action roles, including boxer Rocky Balboa in the ""Rocky"" series (1976–2018), soldier John Rambo in the five ""Rambo"" films (1982–2019), and mercenary Barney Ross in the three ""The Expendables"" films (2010–2014). He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in all three franchises, and directed many of them. Stallone's film ""Rocky"" was inducted into the National Film Registry, and had its props placed in the Smithsonian Museum. His use of the front entrance"
"desire to work on issues related to veterans. Despite his otherwise Republican views, he is an advocate for gun control and has been described as ""the most anti-gun person working in Hollywood today"". Sylvester Stallone Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (; born July 6, 1946) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He is well known for his Hollywood action roles, including boxer Rocky Balboa in the ""Rocky"" series (1976–2018), soldier John Rambo in the five ""Rambo"" films (1982–2019), and mercenary Barney Ross in the three ""The Expendables"" films (2010–2014). He wrote or co-wrote most of the 14 films in"
"work as Malloy, but eventually producer Sam Spiegel wooed Brando to the part, signing him for $100,000. ""Kazan made no protest because, he subsequently confessed, 'I always preferred Brando to anybody.'"" Brando won the Oscar for his role as Irish-American stevedore Terry Malloy in ""On the Waterfront"". His performance, spurred on by his rapport with Eva Marie Saint and Kazan's direction, was praised as a ""tour de force"". For the famous ""I coulda been a contender"" scene, he convinced Kazan that the scripted scene was unrealistic. Schulberg's script had Brando acting the entire scene with his character being held at"
"Joseph Lindsey Joseph Lindsey is an American actor. After an extensive career on the New York stage where he played such leading men as Stanley Kowalski in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", Joe Boneapart in Golden Boy, Hamlet in Shakespeare’s ""Hamlet"", and Iago in ""Othello"", Joseph Lindsey earned wide recognition for his portrayal of the troubled Tchaikovsky in the Broadway hit play based on the composers life. From there he went on to star opposite Academy Award-winner, Mira Sorvino, in the critically acclaimed Fine Line film, ""Amongst Friends"". He has played opposite Keanu Reeves in Alfonso Arau’s ""A Walk in the"
"western. Corbucci's first commercial success was with the cult spaghetti western ""Django"", starring Franco Nero, the leading man in many of his movies. He would later collaborate with Franco Nero on two other spaghetti westerns, ""Il Mercenario"" or ""The Mercenary"" (a.k.a. ""A Professional Gun"") (1968) - where Nero played Sergei Kowalski, a Polish mercenary and the film also starring Tony Musante, Jack Palance and Giovanna Ralli - as well as ""Compañeros"" (1970) a.k.a. ""Vamos a matar, Companeros"", which also starred Tomas Milian and Jack Palance. The last film of the ""Mexican Revolution"" trilogy - ""The Mercenary"" and ""Compañeros"" being the"
"continues the life of a Hollywood writer from afar and become an expert on the fine are of show business infiltration. His second book, and first novel ""LIFE TO THE RIGHT OF HOLLYWOOD"" is due out soon. He is a regular writer for Big Hollywood. Joseph Lindsey Joseph Lindsey is an American actor. After an extensive career on the New York stage where he played such leading men as Stanley Kowalski in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", Joe Boneapart in Golden Boy, Hamlet in Shakespeare’s ""Hamlet"", and Iago in ""Othello"", Joseph Lindsey earned wide recognition for his portrayal of the troubled"
"bad movie and the ""last film before irony was created"". ""Slate"" later listed the episode as one of ""The 25 Best Podcast Episodes Ever"". Tango & Cash Tango & Cash is a 1989 American buddy cop action comedy film starring Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Jack Palance, and Teri Hatcher. It was chiefly directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, with Albert Magnoli and Peter MacDonald taking over in the later stages of filming, with Stuart Baird overseeing post-production. The multiple directors were due to a long and troubled production process, that included numerous script rewrites and clashes between Konchalovsky and producer Jon Peters"
"of Hoboken, where the film was being made) then had ""a handshake deal""but no formally signed contractto play the part, even attending an initial costume fitting. But Kazan still favored Brando for the role, partly because casting Brando would assure a larger budget for the picture. While Brando's agent, Jay Kanter, attempted to persuade Brando to change his mind, Kazan enlisted actor Karl Malden, whom Kazan considered more suited to a career as a director than as an actor, to direct and film a screen test of a ""more Brando-like"" actor as Terry Malloy, in an effort to persuade Spiegel"
"Robert De Niro Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. (; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, producer, and director. He is a recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B DeMille Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards. De Niro was cast as the young Vito Corleone in the 1974 film ""The Godfather Part II"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His longtime collaboration with director Martin"
"Corleone, Carlo Rizzi, and Paulie Gatto in ""The Godfather"". His performance earned him his first Academy Award, for Best Supporting Actor, although Coppola accepted the award as De Niro was not present at the ceremony. De Niro became the first actor to win an Academy Award speaking mainly a foreign language. In this case, several Sicilian dialects, although he delivered a few lines in English. He and Marlon Brando, who played the older Vito Corleone in the first film, are the only actors to have won Oscars for portraying the same fictional character. After working with Scorsese in ""Mean Streets"","
"as Don Vito Corleone. However, Brando recorded only one line due to his health, and an impersonator was hired to finish his lines. Some lines from his character were directly lifted from the film. Karl Malden—a fellow actor in ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""On the Waterfront"", and ""One-Eyed Jacks"" (the only film directed by Brando)—talks in a documentary accompanying the DVD of ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" about a phone call he received from Brando shortly before Brando's death. A distressed Brando told Malden he kept falling over. Malden wanted to come over, but Brando put him off, telling him there"
"Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, filmmaker, musician, and political figure. After achieving success in the Western TV series ""Rawhide"", he rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's ""Dollars"" Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five ""Dirty Harry"" films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. For his work in the Western film ""Unforgiven"" (1992) and the sports drama ""Million Dollar Baby"""
"brother. O'Connell enrolled in Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles in August 2009 but dropped out to return to acting full-time. Jerry O'Connell Jeremiah O'Connell (born February 17, 1974) is an American actor, known for his roles as Quinn Mallory in the TV series ""Sliders"", Andrew Clements in ""My Secret Identity"", Vern Tessio in the film ""Stand by Me"" (1986), Joe in ""Joe's Apartment"" (1996), Frank Cushman in ""Jerry Maguire"" (1996), Derek in ""Scream 2"" (1997), Charlie Carbone in ""Kangaroo Jack"" (2003), and Detective Woody Hoyt on the drama ""Crossing Jordan"". He starred as Pete Kaczmarek in the CBS TV"
"film was intended to be a prequel. They had discussed a potential script, told in a similar narrative as ""Part II"": with younger Vito Corleone and Sonny gaining the families' political power during the 1930s; and with Vincent Corleone in the 1980s, haunted by Mary's death, running the family business through a ten-year destructive war and eventually losing the families' respect and power, seeing one final scene with Michael Corleone before his death. Many actors were announced to play in the film: Robert De Niro, Andy García and Talia Shire were slated to reprise their roles. Leonardo DiCaprio was cast"
"avoid confusion with the cult classic by Roman Polanski. Described as ""Grumpy Old Men"" meets ""Home Alone"", the film stars Academy Award Nominee William Hickey, Carl Gordon, Victor Colicchio, Frank Gorshin, Donald McDonald, Sylva Gassel, Irma St. Paule, Pee Wee Love, Neil Ruddy, and the acting debut of Joey Buttafuoco. He optioned the film rights and struggled for years on an adaptation of Simon Mawer's 1999 novel, ""Mendel's Dwarf"". After years of languishing in what he calls, ""Hollywood's development hell"", the option elapsed and was subsequently sold to Barbra Streisand's company. Uzo was married to a white Long Island native"
"from both fans and critics. Rocky V Rocky V is a 1990 American sports drama film. It is the fifth film in the ""Rocky"" series, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone, and co-starring Talia Shire, Stallone's real-life son Sage, and real-life boxer Tommy Morrison, with Morrison in the role of Tommy Gunn, a talented yet raw boxer. Sage played Rocky Balboa, Jr, whose relationship with his famous father is explored. After Stallone directed the second through fourth films in the series, ""Rocky V"" saw the return of John G. Avildsen, whose direction of ""Rocky"" won him an Academy Award for"
"Callum Keith Rennie Callum Keith Rennie (born 14 September 1960) is a British-born Canadian television and film actor. He started his career in Canadian film and television projects, where his portrayal of Stanley Raymond Kowalski on the television series ""Due South"" was his first international success. After years acting in over one hundred and twenty five Canadian and international projects, he became widely known for his portrayal of the Cylon Leoben Conoy on ""Battlestar Galactica"", and following that, his role as record producer Lew Ashby on the Showtime series ""Californication"". Regularly cast as a bad guy in movies (and even"
"the actor Terry Molloy, while Julian Bleach defined him as a cross between Hitler and the renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. Davros is from the planet Skaro, whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition with their enemies, the Thals. He is horribly scarred and disabled, a condition that various spin-off media attribute to his laboratory being attacked by a Thal shell. He has one functioning hand and one cybernetic eye mounted on his forehead to take the place of his real eyes, which he is not able to open for long; for much of his"
"songs. In 1989, ""On the Waterfront"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) gloats about his iron-fisted control of the waterfront. The police and the Waterfront Crime Commission know that Friendly is behind a number of murders, but witnesses play ""D and D"" (""deaf and dumb""), accepting their subservient position, rather than risking the danger and shame of informing. Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is a dockworker whose brother Charley ""the Gent"" (Rod Steiger) is Friendly's right-hand"
"who set up a deal with Columbia. Spiegel was insistent on Schulberg delivering a perfect screenplay, and barraged the writer with changes and suggestions, to the frustration of Schulberg. Schulberg's script nonetheless went through a number of changes before reaching the screen. In an early draft, the Terry Malloy character was not an ex-pug dockworker, but a cynical investigative reporter, as well as an older, divorced man. Terry Malloy's fight against corruption was in part modeled after whistle-blowing longshoreman Anthony DeVincenzo, who testified before a real-life Waterfront Commission about activities on the Hoboken Docks and suffered a degree of ostracism"
"poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his own novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip in a feral, backwoods America. Both the film and the performances of Voight and co-star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim, and were popular with audiences. Voight also appeared at the Studio Arena Theater, in Buffalo, New York in the Tennessee Williams play ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" from 1973-74 as Stanley Kowalski. Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's ""The All American Boy"", then appeared in the 1974 film, ""Conrack"", directed by Martin Ritt. Based on"
"Val Bisoglio Val Bisoglio (born May 7, 1926) is an American character actor primarily known for his work on television. Bisoglio was born in New York City, New York. He may be best known for his recurring role as restaurateur Danny Tovo in the popular series ""Quincy, M.E."" (1976-83). Bisoglio appeared in numerous TV series during the 1970s including ""McCloud"", ""M*A*S*H"", ""All in the Family"", ""Barney Miller"": S 2/Ep 9 - ""You Dirty Rat"", ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"", ""Roll Out"", ""Kojak"", ""Baretta"" and ""The Rockford Files"". In 2002, he appeared as Murf Lupo in ""The Sopranos"". Perhaps his best"
"Rita's Church in Wellington. Frank Stallone Sr. Francesco ""Frank"" Stallone Sr. (September 12, 1919 – July 11, 2011) was an Italian-American hairdresser, polo enthusiast, writer, and one-time actor. Stallone was the father of actor Sylvester Stallone and actor/singer Frank Stallone. He was well known for being the author of his only book Stewart Lane which was published in May 2010 and in his only acting role in the 1976 movie ""Rocky"" as the timekeeper. He was born Francesco Stallone on September 12, 1919, in Gioia del Colle, Italy, to Silvestro Stallone (1883–1963), a barber, and Pulcheria Nicastri (1890–1973). He was"
"Stephen Tobolowsky Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American actor, author, and musician. He is known for film roles such as annoying insurance agent Ned Ryerson in ""Groundhog Day"" and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in ""Memento"", as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry (""Deadwood""), Bob Bishop (""Heroes""), Sandy Ryerson (""Glee""), Stu Beggs (""Californication"" and ""White Famous""), and Action Jack Barker (""Silicon Valley""). Tobolowsky has a monthly audio podcast, ""The Tobolowsky Files"", of autobiographical stories of his acting and personal life. In 2015, he co-hosted a short-lived second podcast, ""Big Problems – An Advice Podcast"", with"
"in the BBC's production of Miss Marple, ""The Mirror Cracked"", with Claire Bloom. During the 1990s Newman went back to co-star in movies such as ""Daylight"" with Sylvester Stallone; ""Bowfinger"", starring Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy; and in Steven Soderbergh's comeback movie ""The Limey"", amongst others. Director Richard C. Sarafian's original choice for the role of Kowalski was Gene Hackman but the studio, 20th Century Fox, insisted on using Newman. The film was not initially a success in the United States when it first opened in 1971 but received critical acclaim and was a commercial success in Europe. Newman's success"
"and Salvatore Tessio. Other significant members of the organization include enforcers Luca Brasi and Albert Neri and upcoming soldier Rocco Lampone. The novel remained on ""The New York Times"" Best Seller list for 67 weeks and sold over nine million copies in two years. It became the best selling published work in history for several years. The 1972 film adaptation of the novel was released with Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone and Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Mario Puzo assisted with both writing of the screenplay and other production tasks. The film grossed approximately"
"Blvd. In 2005, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Karl Malden Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor who ""for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun authenticity to roles in theater, film and television"", especially in such classic films as ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (1951) — for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — ""On the Waterfront"" (1954), ""Pollyanna"""
"four stars, commenting that it was ""very good."" ""The Village Voice""s Andrew Sarris believed Brando portrayed Vito Corleone well and that his character dominated each scene it appeared in, but felt Puzo and Coppola had the character of Michael Corleone too focused on revenge. In addition, Sarris stated that Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, and James Caan were good in their respective roles. Desson Howe of ""The Washington Post"" called the film a ""jewel"" and wrote that Coppola deserves most of the credit for the film. Writing for ""The New York Times"", Vincent Canby felt that Coppola had created one of"
"""National Lampoon's Vacation"" but his scene was edited out of the final cut, although his character ""Cowboy"" is shown in a photograph during the end credits, and his name appears in the credits as well. Talbott is outspoken supporter and member of National Rifle Association and currently lives in his hometown of Waverly, Iowa. As of 2011 he is also a spokesperson/presenter for Panteao Productions, a production company and distributor of firearms and tactical videos. Michael Talbott Michael Talbott (born February 2, 1955) is an American actor. He is best known for his co-starring role as Det. Stanley Switek in"
"play as either Rocky Balboa or Clubber Lang either against the computer in a one player game, or against each other in a ""Head to Head"" two player mode. Rocky III Rocky III is a 1982 American sports drama film written, directed by, and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the third installment in the ""Rocky"" film series, and the second in the franchise to be directed by Stallone. The movie features returning co-stars Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Tony Burton. ""Rocky III"" also marks the film debuts of Mr. T as James ""Clubber"" Lang, and of"
"Rocky V Rocky V is a 1990 American sports drama film. It is the fifth film in the ""Rocky"" series, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone, and co-starring Talia Shire, Stallone's real-life son Sage, and real-life boxer Tommy Morrison, with Morrison in the role of Tommy Gunn, a talented yet raw boxer. Sage played Rocky Balboa, Jr, whose relationship with his famous father is explored. After Stallone directed the second through fourth films in the series, ""Rocky V"" saw the return of John G. Avildsen, whose direction of ""Rocky"" won him an Academy Award for Best Director. Reception to the"